Shenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The TIROS satellite transmitted the first-ever TV picture from space.
Great Britain claimed The Straits Settlements as crown colonies: Singapore, Penang, and Malacca.
The first edition of The Standard was published in London.
The US Air Force accidentally bombed the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
The lost Roman city of Pompeii was rediscovered by a Spanish engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.
